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What Now? with Trevor Noah

Tristan Harris Is Trying to Save Us from AI [VIDEO]

What Now? with Trevor Noah

Spotify Studios

News, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Trevor is joined by Tristan Harris, a tech ethicist and entrepreneur who is probably best known as "the guy from 'The Social Dilemma' documentary” and who has dedicated himself and his company to aligning technology with humanity’s best interests. Tristan debunks the myth of his Burning Man epiphany and unpacks both the promises and the perils that lie ahead with AI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is what now, with Trava.

0:05.0

This is what now with Trevanoa. Happy Bonus episode day, episode day, everybody.

0:17.0

Happy Bonus episode day.

0:22.0

Yeah, we are going to have two episodes this week and I thought it would be fun to to do it for two reasons one

0:31.6

Because we won't have an episode next week because it is of course

0:34.8

us celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and so we will be taking a break for that,

0:39.9

right? So, Merry Christmas to everyone and if you do not celebrate Christmas, enjoy hell.

0:47.2

For the rest of you, we're going to be making this bonus episode. We're going to be making this bonus episode and you

0:58.5

know why it's because AI has been a big part of the conversation over the past

1:02.4

few weeks we spoke to Sam Altman, the face of open

1:07.2

AI and what people think might be the future or the apocalypse.

1:12.8

And we spoke to Janelle Monet, which is a different conversation because obviously she's

1:16.8

on the art side, but you know her love of technology and AI and and And and and and it sort of gave it a different

1:23.7

um bent or feeling and I thought there's one more one more

1:27.3

person we could include in this conversation which would really round it out and

1:30.6

that's Tristan Harris for people who don't know him, Tristan is one of the faces you probably saw on the social dilemma.

1:39.0

It was that documentary on Netflix that talked about how social media is

1:43.6

designed, particularly designed to make us angry and hateful and crazy and

1:49.2

just not do well with each other. And he explains it really well.

1:53.0

You know, if you haven't watched it, go and watch it because I'm not doing it justice in a single

1:57.2

sentence.

1:58.2

But he's worked on everything, you know.

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